Patents Examined by Cynthia M Fogg
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Patent number: 12225267Abstract: A set of techniques leverages a real-time version of a media stream to gather information on its content which information is used to improve or augment the service delivery of other versions (e.g., live or video-on-demand) of the same stream. These techniques take advantage of the fact that the real-time version of a stream is sufficiently ahead, in time, from any other version to enable the gathering and use of information on the stream content.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Phenix Real Time Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Fabián E. Bustamante, Stefan Birrer
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Patent number: 12219214Abstract: Systems and methods are described for displaying a guide for media content available on a user device. An illustrative method includes retrieving media content guide data for a plurality of channels, identifying a first media content item that is not available for retrieval from a content source, in response to identifying the first media content item, identifying a second media content item that is related to the first media content item and is available for retrieval from the content source, retrieving, from the content source, the second media content item, and generating for display a media content guide interface for the plurality of channels, wherein an identifier of the second media content item is displayed in a timeslot for the first media content item.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Adeia Guides Inc.Inventors: Michael James Brehm, Benjamin Harden
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Patent number: 12219215Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for displaying subjects of a portion of content. Media data of content is analyzed during playback, and a number of action signatures are identified. Each action signature is associated with a particular subject within the content. The action signature is stored, along with a timestamp corresponding to a playback position at which the action signature begins, in association with an identifier of the particular subject. Upon receiving a command, icons representing each of a number of action signatures at or near the current playback position are displayed. Upon receiving user selection of an icon corresponding to a particular signature, a portion of the content corresponding to the action signature is played back.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Adeia Guides Inc.Inventors: Gabriel C Dalbec, Nicholas Lovell, Lance G. O'Connor
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Patent number: 12200310Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for utilizing a content recommendation system powering a streaming media publisher channel to enhance an ad creative being shown to the user via awareness or performance campaigns. This method allows the platform to present exploratory personalized in-channel content to the publisher platform users in endemic banners that run on the platform which then correspondingly helps drive user reach. An example embodiment operates by implementing personalized content banners that may act as a hook for channel users opening their streaming device, both active and lapsed, to enter back into the channel.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Roku, Inc.Inventors: Mehul Sanghavi, Rohit Mahto, Kelly Lee, Madhulika Taneja
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Patent number: 12192584Abstract: Systems and methods for determining emotional responses to videos, generating emotional arc based on the responses and reactions, and determining the type and/or point of insertion of secondary content based on the determined emotional responses are disclosed. The methods display primary content to a plurality of users and determine their emotional response as they consume the primary content. An average emotional arc is generated based on the determined emotional response and it is compared to a current emotional arc generated based on emotional response from a current user. When values of the current emotional are within a predefined range of the average emotional arc at a particular play position in the timeline of the primary content, a secondary content that is designated for the value of the current emotional arc is inserted in the primary content at the particular play position.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Adeia Guides Inc.Inventor: Mona Singh
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Patent number: 12192577Abstract: System, methods, and machine-readable media to facilitate adaptive content composite interaction with respect to digitally distributed content are disclosed. Discovery may be performed, and events specified for digital distribution may be detected. A particular endpoint identifier mapped to media devices may be detected. Events may be determined as a function of access specifications. Content objects corresponding to the events may be received from a remote system via a network. Content composites corresponding to mapping specifications may be created for each content object with selecting and configuring an adaptable content object with the content object to form a content composite to facilitate presentation of the content composite.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventors: Robert Sadler, Timothy Meyer, Christopher Kuhrt, Jesse Montgomery, Shaun Ryan
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Patent number: 12184944Abstract: Systems and methods for addressing a corrupted segment in a media asset. The media guidance application determines that a segment of a media asset is corrupted. The media guidance application determines whether a retrieval period to retrieve an uncorrupted copy of the segment exceeds a threshold period. If the retrieval period does not exceed the threshold period, the media guidance application retrieves and generates for display the uncorrupted copy of the segment. If the retrieval period exceeds the threshold period, the media guidance application determines whether an importance level of the corrupted segment exceeds a threshold level. If the importance level exceeds the threshold level, the media guidance application generates for display a summary for the corrupted segment. If the importance level does not exceed the threshold level, the media guidance application generates for display the subsequent segment and the summary for the corrupted segment in an overlay.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2023Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: Adeia Guides Inc.Inventors: Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah, Vikram Makam Gupta
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Patent number: 12167076Abstract: A client device accesses a video input stream from an intermediate device for display. The client device analyzes the video input stream to determine that the video input stream matches a template corresponding to a screen portion. Based on the video input stream matching the template, a video output stream is generated and caused to be presented on a display. In some example embodiments, the analysis is performed while the client device is replacing video content received from a content source via the intermediate device. For example, commercials transmitted from a national content provider to a smart TV via a set-top box may be replaced with targeted commercials. During the replacement, menus generated by the set-top box may be detected and the replacement video altered by the smart TV to include the menus.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: Roku, Inc.Inventors: Markus K. Cremer, Peter Dunker, Steven D. Scherf, David Henry Pearce, Sherman Ling Fung Li, Wilson Harron, Konstantinos Antonios Dimitriou, Dewey Ho Lee
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Patent number: 12149790Abstract: In some implementations, a user device can predictively route media content to a remote playback device based on playback context information obtained by the user device. The playback context can include local playback context information related to the state and/or context of the user device. The playback context can include remote playback context information related to the state and/or context of available remote playback devices. Based on the playback context information obtained by the user device, the user device can generate a predictive score for each available playback device that indicates or predicts the likelihood that the user will want to send media content to the corresponding playback device. The user device can generate and present a graphical user interface that can identify the playback devices having predictive scores over a threshold score. In some instances, the user device can automatically route selected media content to a predicted playback device.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brian D. Pietsch, Craig M. Federighi, Adam A. Sonnanstine, Taylor G. Carrigan, Johannes P. Schmidt, Astrid Yi, Deepak Iyer, Thomas Alsina, Jonathan A. Bennett, Patrick L. Coffman, Cesar de Camargo Barscevicius
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Patent number: 12143669Abstract: Methods and apparatus to generate reference signatures are disclosed. An example method includes collecting a first signature for media being presented to a plurality of households; crediting the media when the first signature matches a reference signature in a reference signature database; in response to determining that the first signature does not match a reference signature in the reference signature database and the first signature does not match an unidentified signature in an unknown signature database, storing the first signature in the unknown signature database; in response to determining that a second signature does not match the reference signature in the reference signature database and the second signature matches the unidentified signature in the unknown signature database, and increasing a count associated with the unidentified signature.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Sandeep Tapse, Albert T. Borawski, Daniel Nelson
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Patent number: 12143675Abstract: The systems and methods are described herein for playback of content based on progress point information. The systems and methods detect nearby media devices to transmit or request progress point information. Based on the communicated progress point information, the system may generate an option to play back content at a point within the content up to which content was last consumed. When content providers offer different versions of one content item and the user does not select to play back content from the content provider associated with the progress point information, the system determines a proper playback point in other content providers.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Adeia Guides Inc.Inventor: David Wittke
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Patent number: 12143680Abstract: Improved technical functionality is provided to dynamically select and seamlessly play advertisements immediately before playing of a recorded program upon selection of the recorded program for playing, or upon other detected events and conditions associated with the set-top-box (STB) or user. In some embodiments, this is performed by using metadata which may be delivered to and stored on a digital video recorder (DVR) prior to recording the program, providing a technical solution to enable opportunities for additional advertisement impressions. Playing of the advertisement may also or instead occur upon the recorded program finishing playing. Thus, the technical solution provides the additional opportunity for the content creator and/or the satellite television or cable service provider to sell advertising spots in addition to those already sold for breaks within the recorded program.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.Inventor: Gowtham Ram Ramkumar
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Patent number: 12137273Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for utilizing a content recommendation system powering a streaming media publisher channel, in conjunction with an object recognition model, to enhance dynamic generation of a banner being shown to a user via an awareness or performance campaign. This method allows the platform to present the most relevant ML personalized in-channel content to the publisher platform users in endemic banners that run on the platform which then correspondingly helps drive user reach. An example embodiment operates by implementing personalized content banners that may act as a hook for channel users opening their streaming device, both active and lapsed, to enter back into the channel.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Roku, Inc.Inventors: Mehul Sanghavi, Rohit Mahto, Kelly Lee, Madhulika Taneja
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Patent number: 12137275Abstract: A control display method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: first, upon receipt of a preset comment behavior of a current user with respect to a target video, determining whether the current user has added a display object corresponding to the target video to favorites, the preset comment behavior being used for representing interest of the current user in the display object; and if it is determined that the current user has not added the display object to favorites, displaying on a comments panel corresponding to the target video a favorites control corresponding to the display object, so as to add the display object to favorites.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Hui Li, Yanhui Zhang, Zifeng Zhao, Wenlong Chen, Yuhan Li, Ting Yang
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Patent number: 12137278Abstract: Imaging devices may capture images of a user premises. The images may be analyzed and processed by a television receiver to determine a scene associated with the user premises. Information indicative of the scene may be transmitted to a service provider system. A content item is received by the television receiver from the service provider system, where the content item is determined based on the information indicative of the scene. The television receiver outputs the content item for presentation to a user device.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: DISH Network Technologies India Private LimitedInventor: Arun Pulasseri Kalam
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Patent number: 12132961Abstract: Systems and methods for efficient processing and presentation of advertisement based on content re-encoding are provided. An example method includes receiving, by a receiving device, the program content stream and determining, by the receiving device, encoding information of the program content stream. The example method also includes determining timing for presenting a target advertisement, responsive to determining the timing for presenting the target advertisement, initiating re-encoding of content of the target advertisement to generate re-encoded advertisement content based on the encoding information, and enabling playback of the re-encoded advertisement content in accordance with the timing for presenting the target advertisement.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2023Date of Patent: October 29, 2024Assignee: DISH NETWORK L.L.C.Inventor: Yunfeng Yang
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Patent number: 12120389Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating a content item recommendation based on an identified posture. An input associated with a content item delivery service is received at a computing device. A capture of a user is received, and a digital representation of the user is generated based on the capture of the user. A posture of the user is determined based on the digital representation of the user, and a content item genre is identified based on the determined posture. A content item recommendation that is based on the identified genre is generated and output.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.Inventors: Rupayan Dutta, Vikram Makam Gupta, Vishwas Sharadanagar Panchaksharaiah, Sukanya Agarwal, Reda Harb
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Patent number: 12096090Abstract: A system and computer-implemented method are provided for facilitating a video streaming which comprises a plurality of transmitter devices each transmitting a respective video via a telecommunication network and a receiver device receiving the respective videos via the telecommunication network. The system may comprise an edge node which may receive video from a transmitter device in uncompressed form or in compressed form as a low latency video stream, process the video and encode the processed video as a tile-based video stream. A combiner may then, in the compressed domain, combine any received tile-based video streams to obtain a combined tile-based video stream which contains tiles of the videos of at least two transmitter devices and which may be decodable by a single decoder instance.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignees: KONINKLIJKE KPN N.V., NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK Onderzoek TNOInventors: Hans Maarten Stokking, Hendrikus Nathaniël Hindriks
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Patent number: 12096096Abstract: A method that includes obtaining information that indicates an insertion point for a first ad break. The method also includes receiving a manifest associated with a video; generating a modified manifest comprising first segment locator information for causing a player to request a number of segments, wherein generating the modified manifest comprises inserting into the manifest at the insertion point the first segment locator information, wherein the first segment locator information comprises a first uniform resource locator (URL) or URL template information for generating the first URL, and wherein the first URL includes a segment identifier; providing the modified manifest to the player; receiving from the player a segment request comprising the segment identifier; and in response to receiving the segment request comprising the segment identifier, providing to the player a segment or a redirect message for causing the player to request the segment.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: PENTHERA PARTNERS, INC.Inventors: Joshua Pressnell, Scott Halpert
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Patent number: 12096091Abstract: A system for placing real-time interactive images on, inside, or in the general vicinity of a moving vehicle, during a live feed, wherein a user has the capability to pause and then click on the provided HTML hyperlinks with the goal of a user learning more about an image and related products. The Images are read by Facial Recognition Software comparing a limited database of images.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Inventor: William Frederick Vartorella